Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Kailem Anderson, VP of Portfolio and Engineering, Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

There’s been a lot of buzz and excitement about 5G – and for good reason. 5G networks offer significantly lower latency and higher throughput than existing mobile connectivity options. It’s more reliable. In fact, the [Read more →]

Four bits of news from Europe: two M&As, one agency contract, and that new submarine cable: [Read more →]

A new PoP, a service expansion, a certification, and some subsea work: [Read more →]

Some metro fiber, some rural fiber, a vendor win, and a bit of global colo and interconnection: [Read more →]

QTS has been busy adding to its connectivity ecosystem. The data center operator has this week added new fiber options in facilities on two continents, one from MBC and the other from Tampnet. [Read more →]

A few items of interest from late last week or this past weekend to catch up on while I get buried in ice and snow here in the Northeast: [Read more →]

Five regional and metro deployments from this week’s news worth catching up on before heading out (or inside these days) for the weekend. [Read more →]

A new PoP, two vendor deployments, and an M&A: [Read more →]

We got a bit more detail on Verizon’s 5G deployment plans yesterday. Crown Castle has announced an expanded long term relationship with the telecommunications giant to supply small cells in support of Verizon’s next generation network. [Read more →]

Wave Broadband has made a deal out on the coast.  The northwestern network operator is acquiring Digital West in a deal that adds some new territory along the southern edge of its footprint in northern California. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of quick takes from around the industry and the world worth catching up on: [Read more →]

The interconnection space continues to evolve rapidly as SDN-based technologies make it easier to automate and integrate once laborious network provisioning tasks.  Epsilon has long been a global player in this space, and with its Infiny platform the company has been growing its reach across multiple fronts.  With us today to talk about the opportunities ahead is CEO Michel Robert, who took over the CEO role in February 2020 after a 12-year stint at Claranet. [Read more →]

A couple of contracts and a couple of service expansions worth noting to end the week: [Read more →]

An IX expansion, some UC regulatory support, a vendor M&A, a 5G testing partnership, and some cloud-based routing: [Read more →]

Two from South America, one from Asia, and one from North America: [Read more →]

Fusion Connect announced this morning the divestment of its Canadian subsidiary. The Canadian service provider Distributel has acquired Primus from Fusion Connect in an all cash deal. [Read more →]

One M&A, one new data center partnership, and two bits of subsea cable news to catch up on: [Read more →]

Everywhere we look in the telecom and internet infrastructure space we see preparations for 5G underway.  But in many cases, the technological hurdles aren’t the difficult ones.  In markets like New York City it’s easier to talk about network densification but a whole lot harder to actually do it.  Places like NYC have long been minefields for large carriers, but opportunity zones for smaller companies with the necessary local knowledge and capabilities.  One such operator in NYC is Skywire Networks, which has been busy deploying its network throughout the digital deserts of NYC. With us today to talk about Skywire’s approach to bringing high-speed internet to every corner of NYC is founder and CEO Alan Levy. [Read more →]

Four interesting bits of news from around the sector that might otherwise have slipped past my nets this week: [Read more →]

A few interesting items to catch up on this week worth noting: [Read more →]

Lots of interesting international news to catch up on this week: [Read more →]

Pound for pound, few US fiber operators have been putting as much new network in the ground than Everstream in the last couple years. Each year they announce a new set of targets, and in 2021 the company says it will focus a substantial amount of resources on seven metro fiber markets. [Read more →]

Last week we took the M&A temperature of the US network marketplace, and while you can still vote we do have some preliminary results. And I do largely agree with them this year. [Read more →]